Adrian Mouhajer

Adrian Mouhajer is a queer non-binary Lebanese-Australian writer and editor from Western Sydney. Their work centers on spirituality, desire, love, grief, and understanding. They have performed their poetry for Bankstown Poetry Slam, Queerstories, Eulogy for the Dyke Bar and Cement Fondu. Their work has been published with Hardie Grant Books, SBS, Australian Poetry Journal, Aniko Press and Diversity Arts Australia.They were shortlisted for the 2023 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship, 2022 SBS Emerging Writers Competition and the 2021 Sydney Opera House Antidote Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers. Adrian edited the anthology, Stories Out West, which centers LGBTIQ+ First Nations and CALD writers with a connection to Western Sydney.